. The encyclopædia of geography: comprising a complete description of the earth, physical, statistical, civil, and political. a, Scottish Primrose. b, Rock Scorpion Grass. a, Trifid-Leaved Cinquefoil. c, Single-Flowered Water-Green, rf, Small Alpine Gentian. 6, Jointed Pipewort. alpinum, Corallorhiza innata, AchillEea tomentosa, Goodyera repens; the most alpine Cariceaand Salices, and the Dwarf Birch {Bctula nana). There are two plants which deserve particular notice, as natives of Great Britain, andfound nowhere else in Europe; but these are again met with in North America; the one isPotentil
. The encyclopædia of geography: comprising a complete description of the earth, physical, statistical, civil, and political. a, Scottish Primrose. b, Rock Scorpion Grass. a, Trifid-Leaved Cinquefoil. c, Single-Flowered Water-Green, rf, Small Alpine Gentian. 6, Jointed Pipewort. alpinum, Corallorhiza innata, AchillEea tomentosa, Goodyera repens; the most alpine Cariceaand Salices, and the Dwarf Birch {Bctula nana). There are two plants which deserve particular notice, as natives of Great Britain, andfound nowhere else in Europe; but these are again met with in North America; the one isPotentilla tridentata (^fiq; 110. «) abundant in arctic America and upon the Rocky and WhiteMountains, the other t!ie Eriocaulon septangulare (Jig. 110. b). This latter genus is mostlytropical, or a native of the warm temperate zones in America, the East Indies, and only exceptions to this rule are the Eriocaulon pellucidum of Michaux, and the plant inquestion; the tbrmer being found in North America as high as Canada; and, upon exami-nation, the two species prove identical. In these instances, the Eriocaulon and
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